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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Ethel in?" he asked of the sad-faced woman who, after some delay, answered his summons. "She's in the garden, weedin'." "I'll go 'round," said the agent. The garden was a bower of roses. Among them stood a slender girl in a checked gingham, tying vines to a trellis. "Morn'n', Ethel," said the visitor. The girl smiled at him.
When Alaire declined with moistened eyes, explaining that she could not well accept his invitation, he signified his understanding. "We're goin' to see a lot of you, just the same," he promised her, "'cause we feel as if you sort of belonged to us. There's a lot of good people in this part of Texas, and them that ain't so good God and the Rangers is slowly weedin' out.
We ploughed all the fall for dear life; in winter we thrashed, made and mended tools, went to market and mill, and got out our firewood and rails. As soon as frost was gone, came sowin' and plantin', weedin' and hoein'; then harvest and spreadin' compost; then gatherin' manure, fencin' and ditchin'; and then turn tu and fall ploughin' agin.
I looked over and saw him weedin' among the rose-bushes, an' pulled up to give him the time o' day." "You didn' tell him about the Saltypool?" "As it happens, that's just what I did. He'd heard she was lost, but he'd no notion Rogers hadn't taken out an insurance on her, and he seemed quite fetched aback over it." "The devil!" "I'm sorry you feel like that about him.
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